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Self-management: A snippet

December 21, 2023The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAcceptance, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Here - Now - Can, Race, Racism, Resentment, Take things in strideWilliam Tell

It’s happened often enough lately that I may as well tell it.

When I go into the shower room at the shelter, often enough, unhappiness meets me.

The shower stall I prefer isn’t available, and I resent it.

This guy is taking up half the shower bench, and the other half is full also, and I resent it.

This other guy is taking up all kinds of too much time getting dressed, and I resent it.

As soon as I turn my attention to what I will actually do — where to put my clothes, choosing a stall that is available, and getting undressed in itself — all those bad feelings vanish.

Complaining means you’re not doing what you can.

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News as porn

September 28, 2023Media, National media, Thursday postsAttraction, Free Speech Handbook, Here - Now - Can, Louis Farrakhan, Meechaiel Criner, Mental illness, Names, Racism, Romance, TelepathyWilliam Tell

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Wolves in sheep’s clothing

August 17, 2023Homelessness, Justice, National news, National politics, Poverty, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAnti-racism, False prophecy, Here - Now - Can, Keep the focus on you, Progressives, Reclaim Harvard Law, Self-love, Serenity prayerWilliam Tell

I am at a difficult juncture.

My immediate material situation requires that, like never before in my life, I practice what I preach; care for myself; work in my own self-interest; be “here-now-can;” “keep the focus on me;” live by the Serenity Prayer. These are what I counsel any poor person to do. These are what I most emphatically now must do myself.

This entails dis-attending to all the current social turmoil.

It entails turning a deaf ear and blind eye to many messages, insistent messages, particularly coming from those who claim to have the best interests of the poor (like me) at heart.

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Woodrow Wilson’s sins

January 7, 2023OUR BEST POSTSBoth saint and sinner, BuzzFeed, Cancel culture, Here - Now - Can, Keep the focus on you, Madison McGee, Political correctness, Presence, Progressives, Recovery, Simul justus et peccatore, TigerBeat, Woodrow WilsonWilliam Tell

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Self-management in the face of depression

November 24, 2022Get on your feet, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAstrology, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Here - Now - Can, Monthly, Self-management, What IsWilliam Tell

I am extremely depressed this morning. This may be a “monthly.” I find myself hyper-self-critical; ready to take anything someone may say the wrong way; ready to snap.

I’m dealing with various issues in various places that may help explain it, but as opposed to engaging in excuses or blame, I need to deal with what is.

I was in Dunkin’ Donuts at 9:00 and chose to check the library schedule for this week; to chart out what days I would go to the library and what other days I would go to church.

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Podcast — The Way of Peace

June 7, 2022Podcast, The Way of Peace, The William Tell ShowBarclay, Donald Trump, Fani Willis, Here - Now - Can, Jesus, Keep the focus on you, One day at a time, Presence, Twelve StepsWilliam Tell

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Music: Ringo Starr, “It don’t come easy”

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12. An examination of the Sermon on the Mount

May 16, 2022Bible, The Way of PeaceChoosing feelings, Free will, Here - Now - Can, hidden God, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Nitzotz, Presence, revealed God, Sermon on the Mount, What Is, WisdomWilliam Tell

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In the beginning, I claimed that all Jesus’ teachings have the goal of enabling a person to attain and maintain a state I said he called “the Kingdom,” which I call peace of mind; and that the principal means thereto is the practice of presence, keeping one’s attention on the here and now and on what one, oneself, can do.

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14. Jesus is not coming soon — or ever

May 14, 2022Bible, The Way of PeaceEvangelicals, Here - Now - Can, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Presence, Rapture, Second Coming, SexWilliam Tell

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15. Jesus’ words about “the Kingdom” →

“The end of all things is at hand.”
	— 1 Peter 4:7

The first time I was told, “Jesus is coming soon,” I was twelve years old, in seventh grade. My friends and I had no reason to doubt it. We thought, “He might come tonight. Or tomorrow. But it could be tonight.” We lived in breathless anticipation.

For me, it all began to unravel seven years later, albeit it hasn’t finished unraveling yet.

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